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82 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 months ago -Weekly podcasts from Barry E James explaining, exploring and answering your questions on the implications of frontier technology for people, Business and Businesses in this next wave of the Internet.
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S4 Ep. 4 - A Commissioner for Digital Money, A New Institution: Digital Pound Interview with Danny Kruger MP of Parliament's Treasury Select Committee
June 07, 2023 08:08 - 32 minutes - 31.6 MBAt the close of the Bank of England's consultation on the Digital Pound Barry interviews Danny Kruger MP, of the UK Parliament's Treasury Select Committee, who oversee the project, discussed the deep implications of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) on financial stability and liberty. While Danny expressed concerns about the potential negative effects, he acknowledged that he and his colleagues on the Treasury Select Committee were not experts on the topic and that there was a genera...
S4 Ep. 3 - Interview with Jasmine Birtles on d£ and CBDCs
May 24, 2023 10:00 - 34 minutes - 35.5 MBSummary Jasmine and Barry discussed the Bank of England's consultation on creating a digital pound. Jasmine expressed her concerns about central bank digital currencies, stating that they allow for too much control and monitoring by the government. Barry and Jasmine discussed the differences between cryptocurrencies and central bank digital currencies, with Jasmine expressing concerns about the centralized nature of CBDCs and the potential for government control over people's finances. Th...
S4 Ep. 2 - Central Banks, CBDCs and the rise and rise of DeFi
April 27, 2021 11:17 - 47 minutes - 49.5 MBBarry talks to David Palmer, Blockchain Lead at Vodaphone and Jamiel Sheikh, Founder & CEO of Chainhaus - a leading advisory, education, events and app studio about the rapid rise of DeFi and the advent of 'Central Bank Digital Currencies' in the week that the Bank of England announced its digital Pound project - closely following the digital Euro. Jamiel Sheikh reveals the activities of central banks around the world and talks about the coming digital battles he sees to establish DeFi ...
S4 Ep.1 - DeFi and 3D Democracy - The future landscape
March 17, 2021 18:45 - 45 minutes - 49 MBIn this fascinating conversation with David Palmer, a visionary, who is also the blockchain lead for Vodafone, we range widely across digital transformation, including the fact that we're all increasingly cyborgs living in a digital, as well as physical environment. The potential to increase human joy and human creativity through digital transformation, based on blockchain and DeFi, and the future at not just government level, but at every level, including the future of democracy, and of f...
S4 Ep. 1 - DeFi and 3D Democracy - The future landscape
March 17, 2021 18:45 - 45 minutes - 49 MBIn this fascinating conversation with David Palmer, a visionary, who is also the blockchain lead for Vodafone, we range widely across digital transformation, including the fact that we're all increasingly cyborgs living in a digital, as well as physical environment. The potential to increase human joy and human creativity through digital transformation, based on blockchain and DeFi, and the future at not just government level, but at every level, including the future of democracy, and of f...
Humane Economics & The #CovidSpring Ep 6 - Fintech Tackling the Poverty Trap with Fairer Finance Hackathon Winners Finexos
December 15, 2020 16:44 - 30 minutes - 31.1 MBSo, today we interview. Finexos, the winners of the fair finance hackathon about their solution to the mountain of stress and distress already at a peak before the pandemic and the mental health crisis it is driving. And what can be done. President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Dr Adrian James has predicted: "there is going to be a big surge – we refer to it as a tsunami – of mental illness as a result of the pandemic". Meanwhile according to the FCA 26 million people in the UK s...
Humane Economics & The #CovidSpring Ep 5 - Why There’s Still No End to Increasing Poverty & ‘Runaway Inequality’ and What We Can Do About it
December 08, 2020 14:45 - 1 hour - 59.2 MBWhat has gone wrong with capitalism? It seems it has taken a wrong turn. But how? Staring at the scenes of the redundant workers leaving Lehman Brothers in 2008 – followed by all the subsequent carnage - started, for me, a decade of thinking and research and that's yet to complete -seeking Humane Economics. Like millions of other people I knew then, in my gut, that something had gone wrong. That we're working harder and longer – yet increasingly ordinary people have trouble making ends m...
Humane Economics & The #CovidSpring Ep 4 - From Patients to Occupants: Turning the Health Service on Its Head
December 03, 2020 15:05 - 46 minutes - 48 MBIn this episode we will be talking to another big-thinker: Andy Wilkins, founder of Vision4Health about the future of health and health services post Covid. Working with leaders in the field his vision is of a revitalised service that, turned on its head, wraps itself around us as people (rather than patients) rather than, as now, the other way around. That becomes a part of our day to day environment rather than something we visit when unwell – and can detect the warning signs before th...
Humane Economics & The #CovidSpring Ep 3 - This Time It Must Be Different
December 02, 2020 13:08 - 44 minutes - 46.8 MBProfessor Ronald MacDonald is a Research Professor in Macroeconomics and International Finance in the Adam Smith Business School at the University of Glasgow. His previous positions at the University were Bonar Macfie Chair of Economics (2005-2006), and the Adam Smith Chair of Political Economy (2006-2015). He has consistently ranked in the top 1% of the IDEAS/RePec ranking of economists, and was awarded an OBE in 2015 for services to Economic Policy. We discuss his report: 'The Post Pande...
Humane Economics & The #CovidSpring Ep 2 - Predatory Capitalism in Action
November 27, 2020 16:15 - 33 minutes - 34.1 MBBefore we get fully into gear to explore the #CovidSpring and so the future let's take a glance at the past and the present Covid Winter with a look at the effects of predatory capitalism unleashed via the ongoing story of the Mortgage Prisoners. This is an extraordinary story of the toxic economics we have in action involving the FCA, the British government selling British citizens into a form of modern slavery, trapped with their abusers, who behave without balance or restraint threateni...
Humane Economics & The #CovidSpring Ep 1 - An Introduction to Humane Economics & The #CovidSpring
November 26, 2020 13:59 - 4 minutes - 5.02 MBWelcome to the #CovidSpring series in which we look through the Covid winter, which we are now enduring, to the coming spring beyond the crisis and harness some of the world's finest minds to together think about what kind of world we want to create. What kind of world we want and need - in search of humane economics. We'll be asking the question: Why is how did our economy become so toxic? Why do we have a plague of crises ranging from climate change and diversity loss through runaway i...
S2 Ep.15 - Teamblockchain's Blockchain Masterclass Jun 2020
June 03, 2020 16:48 - 43 minutes - 57.3 MBAs the masterclass moved online... Dan Green and Sarah Beaumont from Baker Botts explore cryptoassets and stablecoins. Maria Graza Vigliotti talking about her recently launched book - “Executive Guide to Blockchain”- using Smart Contracts and Digital Currencies in your Business. Taweh Beysolow II, Aludra Capital’s chief data scientist, joining us from San Francisco to discuss: How Artificial Intelligence can enhance Digital Asset Investment Strategies.
S2 Ep. 14 - What if Libra Existed Today?
April 21, 2020 09:39 - 22 minutes - 31.2 MBWhat if Libra Was LiveToday? The world was in a different kind of uproar for months after Facebook and their alliance announced Libra. Then it was that senators were foaming at the mouth and it was the central banks that came close to rioting. Amid similar Trump-inspired scenes of protest on the streets of some of the cities of America today what if Libra now existed after all, quietly in some lab somewhere? Well it does – not in a lab but ‘out in the wild’, on thousands of mobile phon...
S2 Ep. 13 - It's Time to Launch the Fintech Lifeboat - not Sink it!
April 07, 2020 15:08 - 21 minutes - 28.8 MBToday, mid covid-crisis and with banks under increasing criticism I interview Lee Birkett, founder and CEO of P2P platform JustUs who today wrote to the UK Prime Minister, the Chancellor and the Business Secretary, asking they open the doors to #Fintech so that business can be helped now, when it's most needed, rather than in a month or two's time - and too late for many businesses. Banks don't want competition but in a crisis it's all hands to the pumps and fintech has come together ...
S2 Ep. 12 - A HiveMind Explores the #NewNormal #BeyondCovid2020
March 23, 2020 18:08 - 44 minutes - 41.1 MBA HiveMind Explores the #NewNormal #BeyondCovid2020 On the 20th of March 2020 life in the UK changed forever when the government, a conservative government to boot, created a safety net for the population as well as for businesses and began to pay the wages of a significant proportion of the population for the duration of the crisis. Around the world the coronavirus is disrupting at least this deeply in many places. The way forward looks difficult, challenging. But what is also c...
S2 Ep. 11 - The #GuildfordCrowd: Crowdfunding Together - Council & University
March 03, 2020 09:17 - 20 minutes - 18.8 MBSurrey University have launched an exciting new crowdfunding initiative in concert with the local council and local charities. Surrey's crowdfunding platform Gaggle Connect is hosting a raft of campaigns including one to expand the 'Library of Things' service - which brings a new dimension to the sharing economy. Barry talks to Jim Sears who is programme Director MSc in Entrepreneurship & Innovation & Senior Teaching Fellow in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Together with Helen Leech...
S2 Ep. 10 - Ray Sylvain SignOnTheGo
February 28, 2020 12:26 - 17 minutes - 16.3 MBSignOnTheGo is a new Blockchain-Based e-Signature Platform designed for ease of use by SME's and individuals. Bringing simplicity to a service previously only available at a high cost to corporates. Currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/signonthego/signonthego-blockchain-based-e-signature-platform
S2 Ep. 9 - Teamblockchain's Blockchain Masterclass Feb 2020
February 24, 2020 17:42 - 36 minutes - 33.8 MBThis episode covers. The team blockchain. Masterclass for February, held on the 17th of February. Where I talk with Anthony Abell. Director and co-founder of Trust Me and T-P X about the property exchanges due to launch this year, which will revolutionise the ownership of property by making it liquid. Amongst other things, it will allow equity release on a much fairer basis and will help to power a whole new market by releasing liquidity around the world. I talk also to Ferry Tilekens, wh...
S2 Ep. 8 - Teamblockchain's Blockchain Masterclass Jan 2020
January 19, 2020 23:12 - 32 minutes - 30 MBBarry E James & Jonny Fry talk with Vy Pettit of Vizidox, Phil Cambell of Pepo and Bridget Greenwood from The Bigger Pie
S2 Ep. 7 - Teamblockchain's Blockchain Masterclass Dec 2019
December 06, 2019 13:00 - 49 minutes - 46.6 MBDecember's TeamBlockchain Masterclass is an eclectic mix with lawyer Charley Kerrigan, who played a role in a milestone-making report that confirms the backing of English law for crypto-assets, digital signatures and smart contracts. Technologist Hock Law, CEO of Ethernom talks about a computer on a credit-card hosting a crypto-wallet while Bob Booth of IBM about adoption of Blockchain. Richard Ells Founder at Electroneum, the cryptocurrency that's up and running in multiple countries an...
S2 Ep 6 - TeamBlockchain Masterclass Nov. 2019 with Lee Birkett, Liliana Reasor & On Yavin
November 14, 2019 09:15 - 37 minutes - 35.8 MBBiPS are breaking new ground streets ahead of Libra and the field and I speak with CEO Lee Birkett about the latest from Moneybrain. With Liliana Reasor founder of SupraFin about opening investing & diversification to all & On Yavin about the Cointelligence Academy - which is now open & free!
S2 Ep 5 - Commonwealth Finance Ministers at the IMF & the Future of Sovereign Debt
October 29, 2019 13:16 - 20 minutes - 19.8 MBBBFTA cofounder Dr Jane Thomason addressed this months meeting of Commonwealth Finance Ministers in Washington DC, presenting a paper on #Blockchain and Sovereign Debt. She discussed the potential and benefits including cutting out 10 intermediaries and moving Sovereign Debt transactions from 5 days to 5 seconds. Already the pilot has a secondary market created and boosted transparency and accessibility with a resultant reduction of risk - as smart contracts encode regulation to ens...
S2 Ep 4 - Teamblockchain's Blockchain Masterclass Oct 2019
October 23, 2019 13:57 - 38 minutes - 36.7 MBTom Mason is Koodoo's Technical Director, a tech entrepreneur, technical architect and business strategist. In 2008 Tom founded the software agency YouSoft, providing award-winning development services to best-in-class firms, including Porsche and Mercedes. Koodoo is a global equity crowdfunding platform connecting conscious investors and impact focused entrepreneurs, that unlocks the value of the blockchain to enable positive change for people and planet. Koodoo aims to democratise equ...
S2 Ep 3 - Frontier Insights: This Weeks Analysis
October 21, 2019 12:32 - 4 minutes - 4.95 MBFrontier Insights are a weekly analysis of the latest advances and setbacks, use cases and major case studies and game changers in frontier tech. Published weekly to BBFTA.org members - here're this weeks highlights: How Blockchain technology is being used by vehicle manufacturers Central Banks digital currencies - Just a matter of time Generating income from exposure to Crypto SEC places a restraining order on one of the worlds’ biggest Cryptos Digital Assets in the property sector...
S2 Ep 2 - A New 'Cryptobank', Due Diligence on Crypto Assets & Who Takes the Blame When a Decentralised System Goes Wrong?
September 18, 2019 12:29 - 35 minutes - 50.8 MBOn the fringe of TeamBlockchain's September Blockchain Masterclass Barry interviews the speakers: Sean Kiernan. CEO and cofounder of DAG Global - the first UK bank created precisely to serve the blockchain and digital assets space - while all the other banks seem to be running in the opposite direction. Not only that this new breed of bank recognises the needs of SMEs in the UK k.and, seeing how underserved they are, aims to serve them too Dr Stephen Castell about developments in the wor...
S2 Ep 1 - Global Money, Global Gamechanger. Libra, China's Digital Currency and Beyond
September 13, 2019 11:16 - 34 minutes - 48.1 MBKicking off season two Barry talks to Jonny Fry, CEO of TeamBlockchain and cofounder of the BBFTA.org about how the global landscape has changed so very fast. First the shift in the zeitgeist resulting from Libra coin, backed by Facebook and a consortium including Mastercard and Visa - plus the spread of CBDCs (Central Bank Digital Currencies) - sometimes called "digital fiat currencies". Not least among them the People's Bank of China's announcement that they will lead the world with th...
Ep. 54 - Can Blockchain startup IndieOn take on the Film and Music Industries?
May 17, 2019 12:53 - 22 minutes - 30.9 MBApple famously remade to music landscape - can this blockchain startup help to cut out the middlemen enable help musicians and artists to earn a living from their work? Nigel Rudlin is one of the cofounders of IndieOn.com - the blockchain startup that is seeking to remake the landscape for musicians and filmmakers.
Ep. 53 - Frontier Insights: Mapping the Future
March 22, 2019 13:51 - 30 minutes - 42.9 MBThis week, Barry E James speaks with Jonny Fry of Team Blockchain about Frontier Insights. Everyone is struggling to stay on top of the fast moving frontier of new technologies, especially Blockchain/DLT, AI and IoT. Every day there’s an incredible avalanche of stories published online, some fake and many more unreliable opinion or plain PR puff. There’s been nowhere to go to get concise, reliable, insightful and authoritative information. This is why Frontier Insights is essential - s...
Ep. 52 - 'Blockchain Rookies' Explain Blockchain - Clearly...
February 28, 2019 14:11 - 27 minutes - 38.7 MB'Blockchain Rookies' Explain Blockchain, Clearly, to Rookies (and others) Saying that blockchain technology is the result of a paradigm shift while true is not much help in understanding it. In fact it just points to the difficulty for most people in understanding it. People who can articulated advantages and explore its applications - especially with reference to a particular company or scenario - are still few and far between. Unfortunately much of the airwaves are filled with ...
Ep.52 - 'Blockchain Rookies' Explain Blockchain - Clearly...
February 28, 2019 14:11 - 27 minutes - 38.7 MB'Blockchain Rookies' Explain Blockchain, Clearly, to Rookies (and others) Saying that blockchain technology is the result of a paradigm shift while true is not much help in understanding it. In fact it just points to the difficulty for most people in understanding it. People who can articulated advantages and explore its applications - especially with reference to a particular company or scenario - are still few and far between. Unfortunately much of the airwaves are filled with ...
Ep. 51 - The British Blockchain & Frontier Technologies Association Launches
February 12, 2019 10:25 - 7 minutes - 10.9 MBWe are now launching the first Association globally, the first network globally, for frontier Technologies But it's not just an Association for technologists at the Frontiers of AI, bots, robots, iot, autonomous vehicles, alternative reality, augmented reality, DLT and blockchain. Nor is it just for geeks in all the other emergent area a fintech and other sectors, or even those who are expert in more established Technologies. It goes wider than that because the Revolution we are now fa...
Ep. 051 - The British Blockchain & Frontier Technologies Association Launches
February 12, 2019 10:25 - 7 minutes - 10.9 MBWe are now launching the first Association globally, the first network globally, for frontier Technologies But it's not just an Association for technologists at the Frontiers of AI, bots, robots, iot, autonomous vehicles, alternative reality, augmented reality, DLT and blockchain. Nor is it just for geeks in all the other emergent area a fintech and other sectors, or even those who are expert in more established Technologies. It goes wider than that because the Revolution we are now fa...
Ep. 50 - Countdown to London Blockchain Week
February 01, 2019 14:58 - 19 minutes - 27.4 MBLondon blockchain week has grown into one other major annual fixtures for the ecosystem. Barry interviews founder Luis Carranza, about how came about, this year's highlights and a vision for the future, not to mention all the good reasons to join the community as part of this year's London blockchain week from February the 8th to the 14th https://blockchainweek.com
Ep. 49 - The BiPS Have Landed - A Giant Leap for Fintech?
January 21, 2019 14:30 - 26 minutes - 37.2 MBLee Birkett describes what just happened as a world first and for them something akin to landing a mission to Mars. It's certainly hugely significant because this is the very thing that we were talking about with Mike Barrell the founder of the Security Tokens Realised conference: the tokenization onto the blockchain of regulated assets. In this case loan parts from properties, regulated by the FCA. So how did one of the smaller regulated players, from the P2P market, get there ...
Ep. 48 - Security Tokens Taking the City of London by Storm?
January 15, 2019 14:42 - 23 minutes - 33.3 MBTokens That’re Set to Take City by Storm? Security Tokens: Rising rapidly into the Billions? Security Token Offering (STO) investor Mike Barrell says that security tokens represent “a massive tidal wave of opportunity” for not just geeks but those in the city in 2019. Now he’s putting his money where his mouth is as the founder of next week's 'Security Tokens Realised' conference in the city, bringing together the leading minds in the field from the four corners of the planet. Inevitab...
Ep. 47 - Tokenisation: ‘Crowdfunding on Steroids’
January 08, 2019 15:17 - 36 minutes - 51 MBFollowing three decades as an entrepreneur and eight or so years specialising in equity crowdfunding, today’s guest Oscar Jofre explains why he firmly believes 2019 will be the year of the Security Token. Along the way, he discusses his own lightbulb moment about the democratisation of capital during a speech given by former vice chairman of NASDAQ David Weild. He talks about the paradigm shift crowdfunding brought about in opening-up investment to those previously excluded - and then pu...
Ep. 46 - Making Investing Accessible For Everyone
December 20, 2018 12:32 - 21 minutes - 29.8 MBScott Picken has been an entrepreneur since his teens, passionate both about property and technology and the wealth that they can and do create. He created Wealth Migrate as a global enterprise five years ago and this now boasts 20k members from 125 countries, $80m in equity and over $520m in total deal value. More recently Blockchain technology struck him as a golden opportunity to move beyond what's possible with fiat currencies alone and the mission now is it lower the cost of inv...
Ep. 45 - Blockpass on Owning Your Identity
December 11, 2018 13:15 - 26 minutes - 36.2 MBFed up scanning your passport, driving licence and all the rest to prove who you are? Imagine a world where you only have to input your identity details just once; imagine the time and the hassle that would save. Imagine not having to drag out your passport and your ID documents every time you want to check out an exchange or investigate an ICO investment. Imagine finding access to all that verified, trustworthy information about other participating people, and companies - and even dev...
Ep. 44 - As Attenborough Warns Decision Makers, Could This Tech Help?
December 04, 2018 09:48 - 19 minutes - 27.7 MBThis is no time for making plans for 2050 - people are dying - today! It was while studying at Cambridge university that today’s guest Nat Rich realised quite what a state the world is in – and that if people knew some of the stuff she was finding out, they’d be horrified. The problem of carbon emission, and the high NOx levels which kill people, is global, and especially bad in London where it’s easy just to blame the cabs, or the buses, or the trains. We constantly break the EU’s limit...
Ep. 43 - Why The UK Needs A Blockchain Enabling Bill - Now
November 16, 2018 13:35 - 43 minutes - 57.5 MBWhy We Need A Blockchain Bill The answer is simple: We want to lead the world, not fall behind. Once we put the same legal weight behind blockchain technology we long ago did behind paper and 'wet signatures' we can help lead the world ...replace many of our digital (banking, payments and other) slow toll-roads with far faster highways shrinking times from days to seconds (3 to 30 days through a bank network to 3 seconds on the Ripple network – that’s between 86,400 & 864,000 times ...
Ep. 42 - On the cusp of remaking the world: unlearning everything you learnt at school
November 09, 2018 20:50 - 27 minutes - 30.3 MBOn the cusp of remaking the world: unlearning everything you learnt at school Or: throwing down the digital gauntlet Global Nomad – ‘Glomad’ - Jane Thomason has been working in international development most of her life, helping developing nations cope with enormous problems - poverty, inequality, and healthcare. In 2010, her son told her someone had invented this digital currency, Bitcoin, and she needed to invest in it. And she laughed at him, and ‘passed’. One of her abiding regrets...
Ep. 41 - Satoshi Day 10 Years On: Blockchain Revolution - How're We Doing, Where're We Going
October 31, 2018 18:17 - 31 minutes - 37.7 MBIt's 10 years now since Satoshi wrote the white paper that sparked a revolution and is set to change the Internet, money and so the world A look back at the first ten years, where we're going and how we are doing from the perspective of that original vision. Not least though the choices that lie ahead: Will be we architects of the future now being formed around is, or its victims?
Ep. 40 - BiPS: Crowdlending Tokens Readying to Go Global
October 25, 2018 16:17 - 28 minutes - 32.6 MBWhen Lee Birkett launched his online P2P lending and financial product comparison sites on the internet, he says it was a whole new world. Now, he says, Blockchain has the capacity to plug the leaky plumbing in the banking world, globally. Having managed portfolios of £5bn in loans and mortgages over 25 years as a regulated individual, Lee sees credibility and corporate governance as key to public acceptance of blockchain. And while he kept his own head down, hiding from this new t...
Ep.39 - Special UK Edition on Why We're Driving Innovators Away & What we Should be Doing
October 19, 2018 09:30 - 23 minutes - 31.8 MBWhy Blockchain and Cryptoassets are "The biggest gift to the Regulator - possibly ever - certainly in a generation!” Why Barry E James saw fit to write an open letter to Philip Hammond, Chancellor of the Exchequer, titled ‘Britain Leading the World – or Losing a Historic Opportunity Forever’ Think of Britain. Traditionally a world leader in financial services. The nation that gifted to the world its model Parliament; its open and evidence-based legal system; even, through Sir Tim Berners...
Ep. 38 - The Evolution of Disruption
October 14, 2018 16:00 - 18 minutes - 25.3 MBA Mindset Shift Among Incumbents! Those in the fintech and crypto space have gone from being the problem wild child to the cool kid on the block according to Martin Bartlam who shares some of the insights from DLA Piper’s recent report ‘Digital Transformation in Financial Services’ - which throws up some very interesting findings. Not least that there’s been a massive shift in the mindset of the big players in traditional financial services. It has become clear that blockchain technology...
Ep. 37 - Could a self-policing code of conduct shake the bad apples from the ICO tree?
October 04, 2018 19:50 - 23 minutes - 30.7 MBShaking the bad apples from the ICO tree, self-policing code of conduct changing the world. Global regulation of the ICO sector has proved contentious, with individual jurisdictions reacting differently to the rise of tokenisation and the need to deal with bad actors and the potential for fraud. But it is widely agreed across the industry that it can only work if it avoids regulating this creative and passionate sector out of existence altogether. It became clear early on to today’s gu...
Ep. 36 - SPECIAL: Global Blockchain Ventures Scheme - A Leap Forward For Transparency
September 26, 2018 05:00 - 17 minutes - 19.2 MBIn the face of a plethora of ‘Wild West’ references around the ground-breaking innovation of the blockchain space, is the old way of doing business, the old way of making money, facing its final frontier? Does the battle to keep this space regulated end up like Tombstone, Arizona? Or, making money - without the Mint. Or, bringing Outlaws, in law. Pierre Bourke of Blockchain Radio interviews two leading lights of the British Blockchain Association, Sharon Henley and Barry E James, a...
Ep. 35 - How is Blockchain Changing Big Business?
September 20, 2018 18:48 - 39 minutes - 51.9 MBCryptocurrency: a new kind of Clubcard? As a traditional asset manager with an interest in new technology, Jonny Fry of Team Blockchain came to this ecosystem thinking (as many still do) that cryptocurrency and blockchain were somehow inextricably linked with Ponzi schemes, drugs and crime. But he came to realise; if you’re involved in nefarious activity, the last thing you’d want to get involved in is cryptocurrency. Where any transaction leaves an indelible digital footprint, that sits o...
Ep. 34 - Could 'Find Engine' Zwoop Disrupt Amazon to Become the Consumer's Best Friend?
September 14, 2018 11:40 - 28 minutes - 37.5 MBZwoop: The new consumer champions, looking to make money out of the customer without cheating them, share the proceeds from their data, and blow Amazon out of the water! In today’s world of online shopping, the odds are very much stacked in favour of the retailer - never the consumer. There’s no doubt that e-commerce aggregators make shopping easier, rule our lives, influence our shopping habits; yet still all the current investment goes there – to make selling better and bigger, to mone...
Ep. 33 - From Grainy Snapshots to HD Video: Continuous, Transparent, Blockchain Audit
September 07, 2018 12:52 - 37 minutes - 41.8 MBWith regulators around the world scrambling to get to grips with Blockchain tech could the technology itself, and continuous audit, be part of the answer? When I spoke to Auditchain™ founder Jason Meyers this week, it felt a little like talking to blockchain royalty – at once removed anyhow Jason’s top team includes such luminaries as Dr.Stuart Haber, one of the co-inventors of Blockchain technology, who although cited three time by him denies he is Satoshi Nakamoto (but sometimes gets c...